As expected, Blizzard has just upgraded StarCraft II to the next level towards being finalized with Patch 9, it's content release patch. Featuring Achievements, Decals, additional Portraits, an incredible list of new features, and of course the StarCraft II Editor!

* The StarCraft II Editor is now available! o Players will now be able to begin creating trigger maps in preparation for map publishing which will be made available in an upcoming beta patch. * Achievements & Decals are now live! o Players will now be able to earn achievements, browse the list of available achievements, and view achievements earned by friends. o Players will be able to highlight favorite achievements in their Showcase. o Earning certain achievements will unlock portrait and decal rewards. * The updated Homepage now includes a Recent Broadcasts panel and a News & Community panel. * A new Match History page is now available which will allow players to browse and filter their last 1,000 games played. * A new Community page is now available which features an in-game version of RSS news feeds. * A new Friends-of-Friends feature has been added, which allows players to easily find and connect with more real life friends on Battle.net through existing friends. * Additional friends' presence details are now available from the Friends' list. * Improvements have been made on the Voice Chat system in game. o Please use the new voice chat and provide feedback via the StarCraft II beta forums. * The score screen now features a new graph tab. * The art for many parts of the user interface has been updated. * Hotkey templates have been added. * In the gameplay options menu select from standard name based hotkeys for right and left-handed players, grid based hotkeys for right, and left-handed players, and classic StarCraft keys. * Several hotkeys have been changed to avoid conflicts with the "Select All Warpgates" UI button: o The Set Worker Rally Point has been changed from W to R. o Build Sensor Tower has been changed from W to N. o Terran Infantry Weapons have been changed from W to E. o Terran Vehicle Weapons have been changed from W to E. o Weapon Refit has been changed from W to R. o Burrow has been changed from W to R. o Spawn Larva has been changed from R to V. o Neural Parasite has been changed from R to E.

EDIT: Oh hey, that's weird. I went to add/remove programs, and uninstalled SC2. But it took, like, 0.3 seconds, so I was a but suspicious. I checked the folder I had it installed to, and it was still there. So I ran the exe. It started the patching thing, and installed the patch instantly, and started right up. Weird.

Last edited by Mr. on Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I've had a notable number of difficulties in joining games with this and patch 10, including outright crashing and getting notifications that everyone has disconnected before the loading screen even popped up.

I've had a notable number of difficulties in joining games with this and patch 10, including outright crashing and getting notifications that everyone has disconnected before the loading screen even popped up.